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Tue May 13, 2008 4:20 pmby parchpea
I should imagine every player that has moved to another club whilst under contract has been tapped up.
People talk in football and a conversation between players leads to words with managers and an approach and if thats tapping up then every club is guilty as charged.
No team wants to lose good players but the fact is football has a pecking order at every level of the game and frankly the higher up you are in the food chain the less likely it is you will lose an important player.
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Tue May 13, 2008 4:31 pmby Sabre
You're still smaller than the Mancs and Chelsea, remember that.
is this English humour or something?
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Tue May 13, 2008 4:55 pmby Roger Red Hat
nope it's what we call 'bollox' or sometimes 'bullsh!t'
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Tue May 13, 2008 5:22 pmby Reg
Rafa called Coco a w@nker becuase he failed to sign players.
It hardly looks as though Barry is skipping up the M6 does it? Nor Bosingwa. Rafa shoots from teh hip sometimes and I wonder if the repeated criticism of Coco is fully justified.
Meanwhile, Villa and Silva become available from Valencia so suggest Rafa and Coco get on easyJet PDQ and go buy players that will make a solid contribution next season.
Maybe we could throw in Xavi, Pennant, Riise, Crouchie and Phil Babb and they end up owing us money?!
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Tue May 13, 2008 5:44 pmby Toffeehater
We are too slow with our transfer , we should be signing players now , as as fast as chelsea
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:06 pmby red37
Its a possiblity that Rafa is awaiting the outcome of that bollox 6+5 ruling that Blatter wants to implement before showing his hand in the market.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:22 pmby Emerald Red
Barry is staying wrote:Not nice when other clubs try and tap up your best players, imagine how gutted you would be if Chelsea tapped up torres and Milan tapped up Gerrard. personally I hope you keep both of them. I have nothing against Liverpool, they've just 
me up by trying to steal Barry for peanuts. I heard it was £2million and Riise or Finnan.
You heard wrong.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:24 pmby Emerald Red
red37 wrote:Its a possiblity that Rafa is awaiting the outcome of that bollox 6+5 ruling that Blatter wants to implement before showing his hand in the market.
I read about this over at RAWK. Sepp Batter is mental if he thinks he can impose such a rule. The time to have done that would have been about 10 years ago. To try and enforce it today is lunacy. There'd be chaos in the transfer market.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:36 pmby JoeTerp
Emerald Red wrote:red37 wrote:Its a possiblity that Rafa is awaiting the outcome of that bollox 6+5 ruling that Blatter wants to implement before showing his hand in the market.
I read about this over at RAWK. Sepp Batter is mental if he thinks he can impose such a rule. The time to have done that would have been about 10 years ago. To try and enforce it today is lunacy. There'd be chaos in the transfer market.
you would have to A anounce it a couple of years before impementing the rule, and most likely grandfather players into the current teams that they are on when the rule is implemented.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:41 pmby andy_g
can't believe that so many people are saying that barry (thats gareth barry, not number 9 barry) is worth no more than 10 million quid and then quite happily go on about the fact that we shouldn't let alonso go for a penny less than 15 million.
on current form barry is as good as xabi, take into account the fact that he's english and an england regular these days, plus the fact that owen hargreaves went for 18 million and established the current value for english international deep midfielders, then add in the factor that barry is a better player than hargreaves. if we get him for 10 million its a bargain in my opinion.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:43 pmby Emerald Red
JoeTerp wrote:Emerald Red wrote:red37 wrote:Its a possiblity that Rafa is awaiting the outcome of that bollox 6+5 ruling that Blatter wants to implement before showing his hand in the market.
I read about this over at RAWK. Sepp Batter is mental if he thinks he can impose such a rule. The time to have done that would have been about 10 years ago. To try and enforce it today is lunacy. There'd be chaos in the transfer market.
you would have to A anounce it a couple of years before impementing the rule, and most likely grandfather players into the current teams that they are on when the rule is implemented.
That's being realistic,aye; but Blatter wants it passed for the coming season, hence why Rafa wants to wait.
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Tue May 13, 2008 7:12 pmby Kash_Mountain
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Tue May 13, 2008 7:40 pmby puroresu
red37 wrote:Its a possiblity that Rafa is awaiting the outcome of that bollox 6+5 ruling that Blatter wants to implement before showing his hand in the market.
Never going to happen. The EU would have to agree. Even then players could go to the European Human Rights courts and argue they are being restricted the opportunity earn a living based on there nationality.
Just cos Utd payed over the odds for Hargreaves it doesnt mean Barry is worth that much. It wasnt to long ago people were talking about Lennon being a £15 mil player. Silly talk as his not that good. Barry is decent and can do a job. Would he make our team any better? I dont think so.
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Tue May 13, 2008 7:59 pmby JBG
Blatter's rule will never happen, it would need a change to the EU treaty, so its nigh on impossible.
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Tue May 13, 2008 8:17 pmby The Manhattan Project
You're still smaller than the Mancs and Chelsea, remember that.
In terms of trophies won, actually we aren't. We are bigger than everyone else.
The point is that even IF you were right (which you aren't) about Liverpool being smaller than Manure and Chavski, we are all (plus Arsenal) a million times bigger than boring old Aston Villa.
Not nice when other clubs try and tap up your best players,
It's not "other clubs" tapping up your best players.
It's a "better club" enquiring about the possibility of a player being available for negotiations.
imagine how gutted you would be if Chelsea tapped up torres and Milan tapped up Gerrard.
We would laugh, because neither player would accept such a transfer.
personally I hope you keep both of them.
We will.
I have nothing against Liverpool, they've just (something) me up by trying to steal Barry for peanuts.
Business is business.
I heard it was £2million and Riise or Finnan.
You heard wrong.
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